Hiked up the river trail (mostly) to the fourth camping area, about 10.5 miles in. This trip really left me sore, and for only a 21 mile RT. I'm in the worst shape in a long time and have my work cut out. It rained most of Saturday night, but didn't start until after I got in the tent and stopped an hour or so before sunrise, so that was perfect. And sun slowly came out to full sunshine by midmorning.

Anyway, my reward for my early season training hike was seeing two sizable herds of goats up on the hillside on the way back. It would have been easy to miss them up there. The goat photo is pretty lousy, but phone cameras were not designed for wildlife!

Choo choo

burned area

free bridge pilings (I think)

dramatic camp

full sunshine!

Sheep! - there were many many more than this

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To be honest, all I could think was that they looked like caribou! But if they do not have their big rounded horns this time of year, I guess they could be bighorns. None of my pics is any better than the one posted.

To be honest, all I could think was that they looked like caribou! But if they do not have their big rounded horns this time of year, I guess they could be bighorns. None of my pics is any better than the one posted.

OK, sounds like it was definitely sheep then. They're tan with white butts.

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